StackOverflow points are quite valuable IMHO. I haven't used the site in almost a decade, but I posted a few extremely valuable answers back around 2010 about

StackOverflow points are quite valuable IMHO. I haven't used the site in almost a decade, but I posted a few extremely valuable answers back around 2010 about stuff like how to redirect a request or round a number in SQL (/s), and over the decade these stupid answers have netted me thousands of points, keeping me in the top few % of site users. As the quality has fallen off and the main focus has shifted from programming to meta-pedantry I've completely stopped using the site aside from what links Google takes me to. The points however, are extremely valuable still. Whenever I have a tricky problem, I can post a question with a large bounty and dozens of strangers from around the world will spend countless hours of their time doing research and writing up multi-page solutions completely for free. Of course half the time the act of writing out the question makes the answer obvious, but still. Having said that, I still think the quality of answers was better 10 years ago than it is today even with a bounty.